Recently I've been doing a watch project for the year 2010, and in the middle of it I kind of lost the ambition to continue, but within in the past couple of days I picked it back up. Now on my spreadsheet I had an ongoing list of the best matches, but since it had been a while since I had watched them, I felt maybe it wasn't fair to compare them to the matches fresh on my mind. That led to me re-watching quite a few matches, but the one that stunned me was the one 5 star match I originally had for the year, Daniel Bryan vs. SHINGO from DGUSA. I remember absolutely loving the match, and even comparing it to Bryan vs. KENTA from ROH, but I wanted it to be fresh on my mind. Upon re-watching, it was a major let down, like I couldn't believe at one point I had the match as the best of the year. Not to say it's a bad match, but it certainly didn't hit the all-time classic mark I once had it at. 

So this led to me wondering, has anyone else ever experienced such a fall of an opinion for a match? I understand knocking a match down a peg, (or 1/4th star if you use it), as I do it all the time, but I really want to know if anyone has really felt let down by a second or third watching of a match.

Late 2000s-early 2010s NOAH is probably the worst offender of this for me. At the time, I loved those tropey dick measuring strike exchanges, but now I'm at the point where I'm comfortable never seeing those again.

Bit of a minority view, but I don't think 80's Crockett has held up very well. When I first saw it while getting into wrestling, I thought the 7/4/1987 War Games was an easy 5 star match, but when I watched it a few months ago I thought ***1/2 was a very generous rating.

Even more of a minority view is lucha matwork. When I was getting into it, it was mind blowing but now it just seems hokey and masturbatory. I've also soured a lot on CMLL's restrictive 2/3 fall formula and only a couple matches I've seen from them lately have held up as classics for me.

On a more positive note, Fujiwara/Super Tiger from 9/7/1984 was a match I'd watched several times and thought was very good, but when I saw it yesterday it felt like one of the best matches I'd ever seen. 

Most stuff holds up well. The stuff that doesn't is usually the type that tries to be innovative. Ladder matches, cage matches with dumb bumps, junior matches with new moves being tried out, etc.